"He
who does not travel will not know the value of men"(Moorish saying, cited in Bovill, The Golden Trade,
p. 91)

The following
texts are a collection of episodes in Leo's life, all of which constitute
an 'interactive' Leo library. Starting with a global approach to Leo's
biography, readers can delve into specific detail for each of his life
stages, and read about the different interpretations that generations
of scholars have made about him. Thus, my reader is not forced into any
'final' interpretation of Leo's personage, but left free to learn the
facts, and witness how these facts have been used to fit one vision or
another. For Leo was and still is a very controversial historical figure-
one which every nation, every religion, every creed would like to appropriate.
Such is the fate of truly ambiguous men!